Chevrolet Beat India Price in Rs 3.34L(INR) (Chevrolet Beat Price in India): Chevrolet India has lauched it’s Beat in India with a price tag of 3.34 L to 3.94L INR. The actual Chevrolet Beat India Launch news has been quoted below.

Price wars in the highly competitive small car segment is set to hot up with General Motors (GM) announcing the launch of the much awaited Chevrolet Beat on Monday.

Aggressively positioned between Rs 3.34 lakh and Rs 3.94 lakh for the three variants – PS, LS and LT – and packed with a host of features, Chevy’s new small car may just prove to be a game changer in the segment currently dominated by Maruti Suzuki’s Swift and the Hyundai i10.

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“This is the first vehicle to come out of GM’s mini-car architecture and the second launch from the 300 series after the Cruze. We believe that the Beat is a best-in-class product with the highest safety features and biggest dimensions,” said Mr Karl Slym, President and Managing Director, GM India.

The Beat, which will be immediately available for order at the company showrooms, will have a 1.2-litre petrol engine at its heart. While delivering a peak power of 80.5 PS, it is expected to give a fuel economy of 18.6 km per litre, according to ARAI rating.

According to Mr Slym, a diesel version is also expected later this year, while an automatic transmission option is also a possibility in the future.


While the car’s chassis has been made with 61.7 per cent high and ultra tensile steel for added safety, GM is also providing a three-year, or a 45,000 km cashless warranty at Rs 13,999.

The company, which currently holds a 9.5 per cent market share in the small car segment with the Spark and U-VA, expects to corner a 14 per cent share of the most highly contested segment by 2010-end.

Responding to a question on how the company managed to price the car so competitively, Mr Slym said that the around 60 per cent of the components for the Beat have been sourced locally.

He added that manufacturing of the new small car has already started at the company’s Talegaon plant from December 15, where the capacity would soon be hiked to 1.4 lakh units a year, from the current 45,000 units, after the addition of two more work shifts.

According to Mr Ankush Arora, Vice-President, Marketing, Sales & After-sales, GM India, 50 per cent of the production capacity of the plant would be earmarked for the Beat, while the rest would be for the Spark.

GM will also look to export 20 per cent of the production by the end of 2010. The main overseas markets it would target are West Asia and Europe.


Mr Slym further said that Beat is expected to do better in terms of sales than Spark, which is selling around 4,300 units a month. “We expect to do higher volumes with the Beat, than the Spark. The car means a lot to both GM India and its global team,” he said. He added that in 2010, the company expects to sell more than one lakh vehicles cumulatively. In 2009, it had sold around 70,000.

With GM launching its small car a day before the start of the Auto Expo, it remains to be seen how other players will react to the aggressive price positioning. Both Honda and Toyota are expected to showcase their new small car concepts on Tuesday.

Volkswagen, on the other hand, is scheduled to launch the Polo on the same day and may just further fuel the price war.

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